PACIFIC RELATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1934, Page 4

PACIFIC RELATIONS

LECTURE BY MR. H. F. YON

HAAST

Iv tho present time of uncertainty and disorder in the affairs of the world powerful forces and organisations are etill at work to safeguard the welfare and forward the true interests of civilisation. A body that is carrying out a work that is much more important than is generally realised is the Institute of Pacific Relations, whose main purpose is the promotion of good will and better understanding between tho peoples of the Pacific,

In a lecture at the Thcosophical Hall last Sunday evening Mr. H. F. yon Haast gave to a large and attentive audience a great amount of interesting and littleknown information as to the conditions obtaining in the different Pacific countries and the problems that were being faced by them. The Pacific was designed, to play a more and more important part in the affairs of the world, said Mr. yon Haast. When it was remembered that in the countries around the Pacific was centred the greater portion of the world's population it would be seen how this must be so. The Pacific peoples were of widely different types and races; some, such as the Chinese and Japanese of very ancient nationality, and others like the peoples of America and the British Dominions, very young in experience but essentially modern in their outlook and general standards of living, and this would make it extremely probable that some big problems were likely to arise in the relations of the Pacific. The main work of the institute, therefore, was! to inquire into and concentrate attention on the factors that were causing friction between the countries by collecting data and disseminating knowledge so ns to dispel fears and mistrusts and substitute sympathy and mutual understandings. To this ciid considerable research work was carried out by the institute, and the findings published in pamphlet form in tlie countries interested.